Arsenii Mun

First prize winner of the 64^th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, Arsenii Mun, 24-year-old pianist,  Arsenii Mun was born in St Petersburg in 1999. At the age of six he began to study the piano under Elena Zyabreva. In 2010–2017 he studied under Alexander Sandler, initially at the Secondary Special Music School of the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory and subsequently at the conservatory itself. He is currently a student of Sergei Babayan at the Juilliard School in New York. In 2009 he made his debut with a symphony orchestra at the St Petersburg Philharmonia, and in 2014 he gave his first recital at the Mozarthaus Vienna. Recipient of the St. Petersburg City Government Prize. In 2010–2016 he was a recipient of the Sviatoslav Richter Grant from the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation. In 2016 he was awarded the Yuri Temirkanov Prize. He has won prizes in many major competitions, such as first prize at the Horowitz Competition "Horowitz Debut Group C" in Ukraine in 2011, second prize at the Cliburn Junior Competition in the USA in 2015, first prize at the Artur Rubinstein in Memoriam competition in Poland in 2017, and first prize in the St. Priest competition in France. He also received the “Verbier Festival” Tabor piano award. He appeared at the Yuri Bashmet International Music Festival in Minsk, the Mariinsky International Piano Festival and the festivals Larisa Gergieva and Friends (Vladikavkaz) and Moscow Greets its Friends.